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enMerchants of Doubt Deny Climate Change Connection to Hurricane Sandyhttp://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/31/merchants-doubt-deny-climate-change-connection-hurricane-sandy
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/GP04B7H.jpeg?itok=X-hRGbg4" width="200" height="133" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Many serious, thought-provoking post-mortems have ensued in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which recently <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/31/climate-silence-no-more-sandy-rips-through-east-coast">tore through the heart of the financial capital of the world</a>. The disaster will cost the city roughly $60 billion to repair, <a href="http://Hurricane Sandy Estimated to Cost $60 Billion">according to an <em>Associated Press </em>report</a>. </p>
<p>Figures such as New York Gov. <a href="http://statepolitics.lohudblogs.com/2012/10/30/cuomo-we-have-a-new-reality-when-it-comes-to-these-weather-patterns/">Andrew Cuomo</a>, former President <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7T-Wy17U6M">Bill Clinton</a>, writer and activist <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/31/sandy-climate-change-us-election?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fcommentisfree%2Frss+(Comment+is+free)">Bill McKibben</a>, environmental reporter <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/170918/hurricane-sandy-greek-tragedy">Mark Hertsgaard</a>, and numerous others all have connected the dots between the tragedy in New York City and its excerbation at the hands of climate change. </p>
<p>On the other side of the spectrum, no matter how bad the tragedy, it seems, climate change denial will continue apace by the “<a href="http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/">merchants of doubt</a>.” Hurricane Sandy was no exception this time around.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels">Patrick Michaels</a> of the Koch-funded Cato Institute - who recently authored a report described by <em>Greenpeace <span class="caps">USA</span></em>'s Connor Gibson as a “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/22/koch-brothers-produce-counterfeit-climate-report-deceive-congress">Counterfeit Climate Report to Deceive Congress</a>” - denied any connection between climate change and Sandy, going so far as to raise the specter of “global cooling.” </p>
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<p>“It’s also consistent with a planet with colder temperatures as well as one with warmer ones,” <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/the-frankenstorm-in-climate-context/">he told Andy Revkin of <em>The New York Times</em></a>. “More important, events like this are inevitable on a planet that has an ocean with the geography of the Atlantic (meaning a Gulf Stream-like feature), a large north-south continent on its western margin without a transverse mountain range to inhibit the merger of tropical warmth with polar cold, and four seasons in the temperate latitudes.” </p>
<p>Revkin neglected to mention that Michaels told <i><span class="caps">CNN</span></i> in August 2010 that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=fguJod_voPc">40-percent of his salary comes straight from the coffers of the oil and gas industry</a>, which <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/slamming-the-climate-skeptic-scam">fuels the climate change denial echo chamber</a>. In similar fashion, back in 2006, <a href="http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&amp;STORY=/www/story/03-30-2006/0004330403&amp;EDATE=">Michaels denied any connection between climate change and Hurricane Katrina</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/marc-morano">Marc Morano</a> - a climate change denier who gleefully <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-denier-marc-morano-praises-george-w-obama-cop17">lauded President Barack Obama as “George W. Obama”</a> for his inaction on tackling climate change in any meaningful way at last year's United Nations' <span class="caps">COP</span>17 in Durban - also inserted his own polemical take on Hurricane Sandy, <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/a/18238/Scientists-reject-SandyClimate-Link--Warmists-Go-Full-Tabloid-Climatology--Claim-Sandy-Speaks--Round-Up-of-Hurricane-Sandy-Reactions">stating</a>: </p>
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<p>These new 'Tabloid Climatology' claims by activists attempting to link any weather event to man-made global warming are disgusting. The 'new normal' for climate activists is their ever shifting claims as they morph the entire <span class="caps">AGW</span> argument to focus on extreme weather. They are exploiting any weather event to promote their religious like cause and a storm like Sandy is shamelessly used to gin up fear.</p>
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<p><em>Fox News</em>, as always, served as a key piece of the climate change denial machine's echo chamber. This time around it gave denier <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/joe-bastardi">Joe Bastardi</a> the megaphone on <em>The Sean Hannity Show</em>, where he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ineqGFSd6PE">denied any connection between climate change and Hurricane Sandy</a>:</p>
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<p>Let me tell you, this storm was long overdue…Get used to it along the east coast…We are in a perilous time because the Atlantic's warming, the Pacific's cold, it's the 1950's all over again. The next 5-10 years we're probably going to see several more storms along the eastern seaboard. It has nothing to due with global warming, it has everything to do with nature and then we'll go back to where we were in the '60s and '70s.</p>
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<p>Above and beyond this trifecta denying any connection between Hurricane Sandy and climate change, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_Depot"><em>Climate Depot</em></a> has <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/a/18238/Scientists-reject-SandyClimate-Link--Warmists-Go-Full-Tabloid-Climatology--Claim-Sandy-Speaks--Round-Up-of-Hurricane-Sandy-Reactions">compiled a long list of statements from the denier world</a>. <em>Media Matters</em> also showed that <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/31/fox-hurricane-sandy-has-nothing-to-do-with-glob/191018"><em>Fox News</em> repeated the “no connection”</a> trope on multiple occasions. </p>
<p>If one thing's for certain, Sandy has made evident that no climate change-amplified catastrophe is too tragic for the tobacco playbook team to deny the <a href="http://daraint.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CVM2ndEd-FrontMatter.pdf">ongoing climate crisis</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-rogueimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2003_george_kukla.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h1>
George Kukla</h1>
<h2> Credentials</h2>
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Doctor of Natural Science (<span class="caps">RND</span>r.), Charles University, Prague, (1953). <a href="#s1">[1]</a></li>
</ul><p>According to an <a href="http://www.naturalclimatechange.us/George%20Kukla.html">interview with Kukla on the program “Truthquest”</a> at <span class="caps">KHENLPFM</span> Radio (June 29, 2010), he received his doctorate in 1971 at Charles University as opposed to 1953.</p>
<h2> Background</h2>
<p>George Kukla is a micropalentologist and Special Research Scientist <a href="http://www.earth.columbia.edu/eidirectory/displayuser.php?userid=453">at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University</a>. Kukla was an early believer of global cooling and has been described as a “pioneer in the study of solar forcing of climate changes.” <a href="#s2">[2]</a></p>
<p>Kukla has been quoted in the early 70s in articles discussion the potential for global cooling <a href="#s3">[3]</a>, <a href="#s4">[4]</a> In the 1980s, Kukla also released research that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/19/us/evidence-is-found-of-warming-trend.html">suggested a global warming trend,</a> <a href="#s5">[5]</a> but has since reverted to the view that a <a href="http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/an_unrepentant_prognosticator.php">future ice age is likely</a>. <a href="#s6">[6]</a></p>
<p>He was the lead author of a <a href="#milankovich">paper</a> that first supported Milutin Milankovic's theory of glacial cycles by investigating the stratigraphy in deep-sea sediment cores from the southern Indian Ocean.</p>
<p>In his paper he wrote, “We are certain now that changes in the Earth's orbital geometry caused the ice ages. The evidence is so strong that other explanations must now be discarded or modified.”</p>
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Stance on Climate Change</h2>
<p>“The only thing to worry about global warming is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.” <a href="#s6">[6]</a></p>
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Key Quotes</h2>
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<p>“I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt…”</p>
<p>“What I think is this: Man is responsible for a <span class="caps">PART</span> of global warming. <span class="caps">MOST</span> of it is still natural.” <a href="#s7">[7]</a></p>
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Key Deeds</h2>
<p><strong>May 18, 2010</strong></p>
<p>Spoke (<a href="http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/LGOULD/Heartland%20Fourth%20International%20Conf_FullConferenceProgram.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>) at the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change. His presentation was titled “Interglacials Start with Global Cooling and End with Global Warming.”<a href="#s8"> [8]</a></p>
<h2> Affiliations</h2>
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<strong><a href="http://urbanrenaissance.probeinternational.org/">Urban Renaissance Institute</a>* </strong> — <a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=bdc24964-7f82-4f7a-863c-f0ff43010278&amp;p=1">Executive Director</a>.<a href="#s7"> [7]</a></li>
</ul><ul><li>
<strong>Consumer Policy Institute*</strong> — <a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=bdc24964-7f82-4f7a-863c-f0ff43010278&amp;p=1">Executive Director. </a><a href="#s7">[7]</a></li>
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<strong>Senator Inhofe </strong>— Appears on <a href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/inhofe-global-warming-deniers-scientists-46011008-3">Inhofe's list</a> of skeptical scientists, and <a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&amp;ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb">was quoted by the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Senate Committee on Environment <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Public Works</a>. <a href="#s9">[9]</a></li>
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<strong>Battelle and Bechtel</strong> — Past senior research scientist and consultant on climatology, satellitemeteorology, and nuclear waste isolation (<a href="http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/LGOULD/Heartland%20Fourth%20International%20Conf_FullConferenceProgram.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>).<a href="#s8"> [8]</a></li>
</ul><p>* Both organizations are divisions of the <a href="http://www.eprf.ca/eprf/index.cfm?DSP=content&amp;ContentID=1693">Energy Probe Research Foundation</a>, which is directed by climate change skeptic and columnist <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/lawrence-solomon">Lawrence Solomon</a>.</p>
<h2> Publications</h2>
<p>In addition to the following publications, Kukla is <a href="http://www.naturalclimatechange.us/George%20Kukla.html">described</a> as the co-author of a chapter in the book “<a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309054494">Natural Climate Variability on Decade to Century Time Scales”</a> published by the National Research Council.</p>
<p><strong>Sample Publications:</strong></p>
<ul><li>
Marc S. Plantico, Thomas R. Karl, George Kukla, and Joyce Gavin. “<a href="http://www.agu.org/journals/ABS/1990/JD095iD10p16617.shtml">Is Recent Climate Change Across the United States Related to Rising Levels of Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases?”</a> <em>Journal of Geophysical Research</em>, Vol. 95, No. D10 (1990), P. 16,617-16,637.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
<span class="caps">T.R.</span> Karl et al. “<a href="http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1991/91GL02900.shtml">Global warming: Evidence for asymmetric diurnal temperature change</a>.” <em>Journal of Geophysical Research</em>, Vol. 18, No. 12 (1991), P. 2253-2256, 1991.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
<span class="caps">T.R.</span> Karl, <span class="caps">H.F.</span> Diaz, G. Kukla. “Urbanization: Its Detection and Effect in the United States Climate Record” (<a href="http://www.met.sjsu.edu/~wittaya/journals/Urbanizations.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>). <em>Journal of Climate</em>, Volume 1, November 1988. P. 1099 - 1123.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
<a name="milankovich" id="milankovich"></a>George Kukla. “<a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975Natur.253..600K">Missing link between Milankovitch and climate</a>.” <em>Nature</em>, Volume 253, Issue 5493 (1975), p. 600-603.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
George Kuklaa and Václav Cílekb. “<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018295000402">Plio-Pleistocene</a><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018295000402"> megacycles: record of climate and tectonics</a>.” <em>Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology</em>, Volume 120, Issues 1-2 (February, 1996), Pages 171-194.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
Kukla et al. “<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589401923166">Last Interglacial Climates</a>.” <em>Quaternary Research</em>, Volume 58, Issue 1 (July 2002), p. 2-13. </li>
</ul><ul><li>
George Kukla. “<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018289901284">Long continental records of climate — An introduction</a>.” <em>Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology</em>, Volume 72 (1989), P. 1-9.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
<span class="caps">B.G.</span> Liepert, G. Kukla. “<a href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0442%281997%29010%3C2391%3ADIGSRW%3E2.0.CO%3B2">Decline in Global Solar Radiation with Increased Horizontal Visibility in Germany between 1964 and 1990</a>.” <em>J. Climate</em>, Vol 10, p. 2391–2401.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
George Kukla and Alois Koci. “<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0033589472900610#aff2">End of the last interglacial in the loess record</a>.” <em>Quaternary Research</em>, Vol 2, Issue 3 (November, 1972), P. 374-383.</li>
</ul><h2> Resources</h2>
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<p><a name="s1" id="s1"></a>“George Jiri Kukla — Curriculum vitae and selected bibliography” (<a href="http://geolines.gli.cas.cz/fileadmin/volumes/volume02/G2-027.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>). <em>Geolines</em> (Praha), 2 (1995).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s2" id="s2"></a>“<a href="http://www.earth.columbia.edu/eidirectory/displayuser.php?userid=453">Directory of Faculty and Staff</a>,” The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Accessed January, 2012.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s3" id="s3"></a>“Scientists Ask why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead” (<a href="http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/ny-times-1975-05-21.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>), <em>New York Times</em>, May 21, 1975.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s4" id="s4"></a>“The Cooling World” (<a href="http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/newsweek-coolingworld.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>), <em>Newsweek</em>, April 28, 1975.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s5" id="s5"></a>Robert Reinhold. “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/19/us/evidence-is-found-of-warming-trend.html"><span class="caps">EVIDENCE</span> <span class="caps">IS</span> <span class="caps">FOUND</span> <span class="caps">OF</span> <span class="caps">WARMING</span> <span class="caps">TREND</span></a>,” <em>New York Times</em>, October 19, 1981.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s6" id="s6"></a>“<a href="http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/an_unrepentant_prognosticator.php">An Unrepentant Prognosticator</a>,” <em>Gelf Magazine</em>, April 24, 2007.</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="../../lawrence-solomon" name="s7" id="s7">Lawrence Solomon</a>. “<a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=bdc24964-7f82-4f7a-863c-f0ff43010278&amp;p=1 ">Forget warming - beware the new ice age</a>.” <em>National Post, </em>June 24, 2007.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s8" id="s8"></a>4th International Conference on Climate Change Program (<a href="http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/LGOULD/Heartland Fourth International Conf_FullConferenceProgram.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>). Accessed January, 2012, from uhaweb.hartford.edu.</p>
</li>
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<p><a name="s9" id="s9"></a>Marc Morano. “<a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&amp;ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb"><span class="caps">U.S.</span> Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007</a>,” U,S, Senate Committee on Environment <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Public Works, December 20, 2007.</p>
</li>
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<p>“<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/6913-scientist-predicts-new-ice-age">Scientist Predicts New Ice Age</a>.” <em>The New American</em>, March 30, 2011.</p>
</li>
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<p>“<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol25/15/2515_Ice_Age_5000_yrs.html">Despite Global Warming, Scientists Say to Expect Another Ice Age—In 5,000 Years.”</a> <em>Columbia University Record</em>, February 25, 2000.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-rogueimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Don%20Easterbrook.png" width="200" height="183" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h1>
Don Easterbrook</h1>
<h2> Credentials </h2>
<ul><li>
Ph.D., Geology. <a href="#s1">[1]</a></li>
</ul><h2> Background</h2>
<p>Don Easterbrook is a Professor Emeritus of Glacial Geology and Environmental and Engineering Geology at Western Washington University.</p>
<p>Easterbrook is a regular speaker at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">Heartland Institute</a>'s International Conference on Climate Change.</p>
<h2>
Stance on Climate Change</h2>
<p>“We are entering a solar cycle of much reduced sunspots, very similar to that which accompanied the change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which virtually all scientists agree was caused by solar variation. Thus, we seem to be headed for cooler temperatures as a result of reduced solar irradiance.” <a href="#s2">[2]</a></p>
<h2>
Key Quotes</h2>
<blockquote>
<p>“If the cycles continue as in the past, the current warm cycle should end soon and global temperatures should cool slightly until about 2035, then warm about 0.5°C from ~2035 to ~2065, and cool slightly until 2100. The total increase in global warming for the century should be ~0.3 °C, rather than the catastrophic warming of 3-6°C (4-11°F) predicted by the <span class="caps">IPCC</span>.” <a href="#s3">[3]</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>
Key Deeds</h2>
<p class="title"><strong style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">July 7 - 9, 2014</strong></p>
<p>Don Easterbrook was a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140714154246/http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/">speaker</a> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">Heartland Institute</a>’s Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (<span class="caps">ICCC</span>9) in Las Vegas, Nevada. <a href="#s7">[7]</a></p>
<p>DeSmogBlog has done in-depth research on the other speakers and sponsors from Heartland's <span class="caps">ICCC</span>9, which can be found <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160136/http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest">here</a>.</p>
<p class="title"><strong>May 21 - 23, 2012</strong></p>
<p class="title">Easterbrook was a <a href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/speakers/" target="_blank">speaker</a> at the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">Heartland Institute</a>'s 7th International Conference on Climate Change (<span class="caps"><span class="caps"><span class="caps">ICCC</span>7</span></span>).</p>
<p>DeSmogBlog<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-denial-palooza-sponsors-have-received-67-million-exxonmobil-koch-and-scaife-foundations"> researched the co-sponsors behind Heartland's <span class="caps"><span class="caps"><span class="caps">ICCC</span>7</span></span></a> and found that they had collectively received <strong>over $67 million</strong> from ExxonMobil, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Brothers" target="_blank">Koch Brothers </a>and the conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scaife_Foundations" target="_blank">Scaife family foundations</a>.</p>
<p><strong>May, 2010</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://youtu.be/bzUfMIMuE2A">Spoke</a> at the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change on “The Looming Threat of Global Cooling”:</p>
<p><object height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bzUfMIMuE2A?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bzUfMIMuE2A?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420"></embed></object></p>
<p><strong>March, 2009</strong></p>
<p>Spoke at the Heartland Institute's Second International Conference on Climate Change. His presentation was titled “'<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Don_Easterbrook#cite_note-0">Global Warming' Is Over: Geologic, Oceanographic, and Solar Evidence for Global Cooling in the Coming </a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Don_Easterbrook#cite_note-0">Decades</a>.” <a href="#s4">[4]</a></p>
<p><strong>March, 2008</strong></p>
<p>Easterbrook is listed as a <a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2008/10/09/declaration-signatories-include-impressive-list-scientists">signatory</a> to the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change which <a href="http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=37&amp;Itemid=1">declares that global warming is “not a global crisis.”</a></p>
<p>The Declaration was introduced at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute/International_Conference_on_Climate_Change_(2008)">Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change</a> in New York.</p>
<p><strong>Dec 20, 2007</strong></p>
<p>Easterbrook's name appears on a Submission from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lavoisier_Group">Lavoisier Group</a> to the Garnaut Climate Change Review (<a href="http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/climate-policy/garnaut/GarnautsubappxA.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>).</p>
<p><strong>March, 2007</strong></p>
<p>Easterbrook was interviewed in a <em>New York Times</em> piece titled “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?ex=1331438400&amp;en=2df9d6e7a5aa6ed6&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype”</a> where he is presented as a professor of Geology who “cited 'inaccuracies' in 'An Inconvenient Truth'.” The article mentions other climate change skeptics including <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen">Richard Lindzen</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/bjorn-lomborg">Bjørn Lomborg</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer">Roy Spencer</a>, and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/benny_peiser">Benny J. Peiser</a>.</p>
<p>Easterbrook is described as having “no political axe to grind,” and as being a “rank-and-file” scientist, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200703150012">despite his skeptical views on global warming which put him at odds with the scientific majority</a>.</p>
<h2> Affiliations </h2>
<ul><li>
<strong><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute">Heartland Institute</a> — </strong>Regular speaker at International Conference on Climate Change.</li>
</ul><h2> Publications</h2>
<p>Easterbrook's <a href="http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/">profile at the Department of Geology of Western Washington University </a>includes the following <a href="http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/pubs.htm">list of papers </a>on the topic of “Global Climate Change, Global Warming” (<a href="http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/research/global/glopubs.htm"><span class="caps">PDF</span>s are available here</a>):</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sample Publications</span></p>
<ul><li>
Don J. Easterbrook, “<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=10783">Global Cooling is Here: Evidence for Predicting Global Cooling for the Next Three </a><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=10783">Decades</a>.” <em>Global Research</em>, November 2, 2008 (Department of Geology, Western Washington University). </li>
</ul><ul><li>
Easterbrook, D.J., 2005, “Causes and effects of abrupt, global, climate changes and global warming,” <em>Geological Society of America</em>, Abstracts with Program, v.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
Easterbrook, D.J., Evenson, E.B., Gosse, J., Ivy-Ochs,S., Kovanen, D.J., and Sherard, C.A., 2004, “Synchronous, global, late Pleistocene ice sheet and alpine glacial fluctuations,” <em>Geological Society of America</em>.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
Easterbrook, D.J., 2003, “Global, double, Younger Dryas, glacial fluctuations in ice sheets and alpine glaciers,” <em>International Quaternary Association</em>.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
Easterbrook, D.J., 2003, “Synchronicity and sensitivity of alpine and continental glaciers to abrupt, global, climatic changes during the Younger Dryas” Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v.</li>
</ul><ul><li>
Easterbrook, D.J., 2002, “Implications of Younger Dryas glacial fluctuations in the western U.S., New Zealand, and Europe,” Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v.</li>
</ul><h2> Resources</h2>
<ol><li>
<p><a name="s1" id="s1"></a>“<a href="http://www.warmingscaretactics.com/Skeptical_Scientists.php">Dr. Arthur Robinson (<span class="caps">OISM</span>) Release Names of over 30,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Hypothesis</a>,” <em>Street Insider</em>, May 19, 2008. Republished by <em>Warming Scare Tactics</em>. Accessed December 6, 2011.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s2" id="s2"></a>“Recent Global Cooling: Summary” (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080920182733/http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~dbunny/research/global/glocool_summary.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>), by Don Easterbrook.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s3" id="s3"></a>“<a href="http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2006AM/finalprogram/abstract_108164.htm">The Cause of Global Warming and Predictions for the Coming Century</a>,”<strong> </strong>Geological Society of America <em>Abstracts with Programs</em>, Vol. 38, No. 7, p. 235<strong>. </strong></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s4" id="s4"></a>“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Don_Easterbrook#cite_note-0">Don Easterbrook</a>,” SourceWatch profile.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1327">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Don Easterbrook</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Easterbrook">Don Easterbrook</a>,” Wikipedia.</p>
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<p><a name="s7" id="s7"></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160136/http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/07/08/return-denial-palooza-heartland-institute-hitches-anti-science-wagon-freedomfest" target="_blank">Return of Climate Denial-a-Palooza: Heartland Institute Hitches Anti-Science Wagon to Vegas FreedomFest</a>,” </span><em style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">DeSmogBlog</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">, July 7, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.</span></p>
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Mojib Latif</h1>
<h2> Background</h2>
<p><strong>Mojib Latif is not a skeptic of climate change. </strong>He has noted <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120668812&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1007">that many skeptics have incorrectly cited his studies </a>as proof that climate change is not happening. He says that the cooling he discovered was only temporary and “global warming will accelerate again.” <a href="#s1">[1]</a></p>
<p>Mojib Latif is a German meteorologist and oceanographer. He is an author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a climate physicist at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany.</p>
<h2>
Stance on Climate Change</h2>
<p>“If my name was not Mojib Latif, my name would be global warming<strong>. So I really believe in Global Warming</strong>. Okay. However, you know, we have to accept that there are these natural fluctuations, and therefore, the temperature may not show additional warming <strong>temporarily</strong>” (emphasis added). <a href="#s1">[1]</a></p>
<h2>
Key Quotes</h2>
<p>Excerpt from <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120668812"><span class="caps">NPR</span> Transcript</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><span class="caps">RAZ</span>: Now, your research, Dr. Latif, has been cited by climate change skeptics here in the U.S., by for example, George Will, a conservative columnist with the Washington Post, to show that the Earth actually goes through natural warming and cooling trends and that climate change is really being overhyped. Do you think your work is being misused?<br /><br />
Dr. <span class="caps">LATIF</span>: Yes. It is misused. I must say this, unfortunately, because these changes we are talking about, these short-term changes, you know, their amplitudes are much smaller than the long-term warming trends. So we are talking about a hold, okay, in the last 10 years. We are not talking about a net cooling to, say, (unintelligible) temperatures, (unintelligible), you know, which we observed 100 years ago or so. Okay, and also what we predicted for the future is basically that this hold may continue for another 10 years or so, okay, but we did not predict a cooling. We basically said that we would stay for some more years on this plateau. <a href="#s1">[1]</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h2> Publications</h2>
<ul><li>
<span class="caps">N. S.</span> Keenlyside, M. Latif, J. Jungclaus, L. Kornblue and E. Roeckner. “<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/full/nature06921.html">Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic </a><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/full/nature06921.html">sector.</a>” <em>Nature</em>, 453 (May 1, 2008): 84-88. </li>
</ul><h2> Resources</h2>
<ol><li>
<p><a name="s1" id="s1"></a>“Scientist Explains Earth's Warming Plateau” (<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120668812">transcript</a>). November 22, 2009, <em><span class="caps">NPR</span></em>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a name="s2" id="s2"></a>Fred Pearce. “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091203032658/http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327254.000-world-will-cool-for-the-next-decade.html ]">World will 'cool for the next decade'</a>,” <em>New Scientist</em>, September 9, 2009 (Issue 2725). Archived December 3, 2009.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h1>
<img alt="Reid Bryson" border="0" height="157" src="/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Reid_Bryson.jpg" width="160" /></h1>
<h1>
​Reid A. Bryson</h1>
<h2>
Credentials </h2>
<ul><li>
Ph.D. in meteorology from University of Chicago in 1948.</li>
<li>
<span class="caps">B.A.</span> in geology at Denison University in 1941. </li>
</ul><p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="#s1">[1]</a></p>
<h2> Background</h2>
<p>Reid Bryson was an atmospheric scientist, geologist, and meteorologist. He was a prominent skeptic and hero to the skeptical science community. He passed away in June, 2008. He was a professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.</p>
<p>Bryson was an early proponent of global cooling. He described fears that global cooling would produce food shortages, saying that “the climate of earth is changing and is changing in a direction that is not promising in terms of our ability to feed the world.”</p>
<h2>
Stance on Climate Change</h2>
<p>“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd… Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.” <a href="#s2">[2]</a></p>
<h2>
Key Quotes</h2>
<blockquote>
<p>“You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.” <a href="#s2">[2]</a></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>“There are a number of causes of climatic change, and until all causes other than carbon dioxide increase are ruled out, we cannot attribute the change to carbon dioxide alone.” <a href="#s3">[3]</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>
Key Deeds </h2>
<p><strong>Dec 20, 2008</strong></p>
<p>Bryson's name appeared on a <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report, (<a href="http://hatch.senate.gov/public/_files/USSenateEPWMinorityReport.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>) among other scientists disputing man-made global warming.</p>
<p><strong>Dec 13, 2007 </strong></p>
<p>Bryson was a signatory to the <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/open_letter_to_un.html">2007 open letter to secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon</a> that stresses how “Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems.”</p>
<p><strong>Dec 6, 2007</strong></p>
<p>Appeared on the <span class="caps">CNBC</span>'s “Squawk Box” program where he discussed the “<a href="http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=604613801">Myth of a Warming Earth</a>”:</p>
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<h2>
Affiliations </h2>
<ul><li>
<strong><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/james-inhofe">Senator</a> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/james-inhofe">James Inhofe </a> — </strong>Inhofe frequently cited Bryson on climate change issues and Bryson was prominently presented on<a href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/inhofe-global-warming-deniers-scientists-46011008"> Inhofe's list</a> of “400 skeptical scientists”. </li>
</ul><h2> Publications</h2>
<p><strong>Books:</strong></p>
<ul><li>
Reid A. Bryson and <span class="caps">TJ</span> Murray, <em>Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the Changing Weather</em> (University of Wisconsin Press, 1977).</li>
</ul><ul><li>
Reid A. Bryson and <span class="caps">FK</span> Hare,<em> Climates of North America (New York. </em>Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. <em>1974</em>.)</li>
</ul><p><strong>Articles:</strong></p>
<ul><li>
Reid. A. Bryson. “<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/184/4138/753.extract">A Perspective on Climatic </a><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/184/4138/753.extract">Change</a>.” <em>Science</em>, 184, no. 4138 (April, 1974): 753-760.</li>
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Reid. A. Bryson and <span class="caps">BM</span> Goodman. “<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/207/4435/1041.short">Volcanic Activity and Climatic </a><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/207/4435/1041.short">Changes</a>.” <em>Science, 207, no. 4435 (March, 1980): 1041-1044.</em></li>
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<p><a name="s1" id="s1"></a>“<a href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/15316">Pioneer of climatology dies at </a><a href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/15316">88</a>.” <em>University of Wisconsin-Madison News</em>. June 12, 2008.</p>
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<p><a name="s2" id="s2"></a>“<a href="http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html">The Faithful </a><a href="http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/may07.html">Heretic</a>.” <em>Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News</em>. May, 2007.</p>
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<p><a name="s3" id="s3"></a>“Global Warming?” <span>(<a href="http://icecap.us/images/uploads/BRYSON.pdf"><span class="caps">PDF</span></a>). <em><span class="caps">ICECAP</span></em>. </span></p>
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<p>“<a href="http://mail.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Reid_Bryson">Reid Bryson</a>,” SourceWatch Profile.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/funny%20cooling.gif?itok=wkrzOaNa" width="200" height="247" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>As word spreads about the <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGAa00xryzkYa7FUhfip-CDPM_tgD9BIVLKO0" target="_blank">Associated Press blind test</a> examining the global cooling theory, which <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/statisticians-confirm-no-global-cooling-despite-skeptic-spin">I wrote about earlier this week</a>, I began to wonder how many times skeptics have tried to push this global cooling myth recently on the Internets. <br /><br />So I perused the first 10 pages of results on Google for the term “global cooling” and discovered plenty of examples of skeptics hawking their global cooling theory on the usual suspect blogs and media outlets (with a few exceptions like the much-ballyhooed <span class="caps">BBC</span> News <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm " target="_blank">article</a> earlier this month). Here is a sampling of the results of the search:</p>
<p>[<strong>Editor’s note:</strong> this is just the beginning of the monster list. Our research team is adding a ton more over the next couple of hours]</p>
<p><a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=508767 " target="_blank">Investor’s Business Daily | October 12, 2009</a><br />Title: “Three Decades Of Global Cooling”<br />“Earth’s climate is influenced by many things, the least of which is the internal combustion engine. We and reputable scientists have noted the earth has cooled during the last decade, a period in which the sun has grown very quiet with little or no sunspot activity.”<br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm " target="_blank"><span class="caps">BBC</span> News | October 9, 2009</a><br />Article title: What happened to global warming?<br />“This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.”<br /><br /><a href="http://features.csmonitor.com/discoveries/2009/10/10/biggest-news-youve-never-heard-earth-isnt-warming/ " target="_blank">Christian Science Monitor | October 10, 2009</a><br />“The Earth isn’t warming right now, is why. It may even be cooling down somewhat. Five major climate centers around the world agree that average global temperatures have not risen in the past 11 years, according to the <span class="caps">BBC</span>. In fact, in eight of those years, global average temperatures dipped a tad.”</p>
<p><br /><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/09/20/u-s-media-ignoring-about-face-leading-global-warming-proponent " target="_blank"><!--break-->NewsBusters | September 20, 2009</a><br />“the Atlantic, and particularly the North Atlantic, has been cooling instead. And it looks set to continue a cooling phase for 10 to 20 more years. … it is increasingly clear that global warming is on hiatus for the time being. And that is not what the <span class="caps">UN</span>, the alarmist scientists or environmentalists predicted. For the past dozen years, since the Kyoto accords were signed in 1997, it has been beaten into our heads with the force and repetition of the rowing drum on a slave galley that the Earth is warming and will continue to warm rapidly through this century until we reach deadly temperatures around 2100.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2009/09/23/decades_of_global_cooling_ahead__97424.html" target="_blank">Investor’s Business Daily | September 23, 2009</a><br />Editorial title: Decades of Global Cooling Ahead? <br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Scientific-evidence-now-points-to-global-cooling-contrary-to-UN-alarmism-52455392.html " target="_blank">Washington Examiner | August 4, 2009</a><br />Title: “Scientific evidence now points to global cooling, contrary to <span class="caps">U.N.</span> alarmism”<br />“<span class="caps">U.S.</span> policymakers who cite “consensus” on man-made global warming as justification for anti-emission regulations are relying upon outdated and misleading material from the United Nations that deliberately omits the influence of natural forces, according to climate skeptics. In fact, a growing body of evidence now points to the emergence of another cooling cycle that could persist for decades.” <br /><br /><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=618074" target="_blank">OneNewsNow | July 27, 2009</a><br />“Marc Morano with ClimateDepot.com says all across America, record low temperatures have been broken throughout the summer. He blames that on a recent trend of global cooling that has been in place for more than seven years.”<br /><br /><a href="http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/letters/6635757.html " target="_blank">Kennebec Journal | July 24, 2009</a><br />“Global warming ended three years ago. We are now entering a 27-year solar cycle of global cooling. … With scientific evidence being reported around the world, Congress, the news media, and the European Union are still proclaiming global warming, while, in fact, global cooling is now in effect.”<br /><br /><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTlhOTNiOWFlMmMzNmJkOWM3ZTk5NWJkNTU2Nzk5NWI=" target="_blank">National Review | July 13, 2009</a><br />“Earth’s temperatures continue a chilling trend that began eleven years ago. As global cooling accelerates, global-warmists kick, scream, and push their pet theory — just like little kids who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children tell them not to bother waiting up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.”<br /><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/06/15/will-widespread-global-cooling-reports-freeze-al-gore-media-credibilit " target="_blank"><br />NewsBusters | June 15, 2009</a><br />So with all these reports about worldwide cold weather pouring in, why does Al Gore still have a shred of credibility left? When will he be questioned about how we can have Global Warming when all the evidence is now pointing towards Global Cooling? Come to think of it, when will Heidi Cullen, James Hansen, and Maggie Rodriguez of the <span class="caps">CBS</span> Early Show who fretted about an “ice-free” North Pole last year be called to account for being spectacularly wrong by the <span class="caps">MSM</span>?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2009/April/Global-Cooling-Earths-Little-Known-Threat-/ " target="_blank">Christian Broadcasting Network (700 Club) | April 20, 2009</a><br />Title: “Global Cooling Earth’s Little-Known Threat”<br />“many fear global warming is the greatest threat to mankind, but what if the Earth was no longer warming, and began to cool? … global cooling does not seem to be on anyone’s political agenda at the moment.” <br /><br /><a href="http://www.heartland.org/publications/environment%20climate/article/24739/Global_Cooling_Continues.html " target="_blank">Heartland Institute | March 2009</a><br />Title: “Global Cooling Continues”<br />“Continuing a decade-long trend of declining global temperatures, the year 2008 was significantly colder than 2007, and global temperatures for the year were below the average over the past 30 years.”<br /><a href="http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090114065138.aspx" target="_blank"><br />Business <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Media Institute | January 15, 2009</a><br />Title: “The Ice Age Cometh: Experts Warn of Global Cooling”<br />“’Lou Dobbs Tonight’ segment dismisses manmade global warming theory – ‘effects of greenhouse gas have a small impact on climate change.’ If you’re fortunate enough to have it – don’t sell that oceanfront property for fear that the icecaps will melt, and rising seas swamping your property. A segment on <span class="caps">CNN</span>’s Jan. 13 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” explored the possibility that earth isn’t warming, but is, in fact, cooling.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/ice_age_cooling/2009/01/13/170804.html" target="_blank">NewsMax | January 13, 2009</a><br />Title: “Global Cooling Headed Our Way”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/200901073243/energy-and-environment/global-warming-is-really-global-cooling.html " target="_blank">Right Side News | January 7, 2009</a><br />Title: “Global Warming is Really Global Cooling”<br />“The truth: Since global temperatures have followed a cooling trend for eight straight years (or 11, if one goes back to the exceptionally warm el Nino year of 1998), most of the supposed recent consequences of “global warming” mentioned in the article - to the extent that the phenomena mentioned have occurred at all - cannot possibly have arisen because of “global warming”, because there has not been any.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=10783 " target="_blank">Centre for Research on Globalization | November 2, 2008</a><br />“Global Cooling is Here: Evidence for Predicting Global Cooling for the Next Three Decades,” by Prof. Don J. Easterbrook <br />“Global warming (i.e, the warming since 1977) is over. The minute increase of anthropogenic <span class="caps">CO</span>2 in the atmosphere (0.008%) was not the cause of the warming—it was a continuation of natural cycles that occurred over the past 500 years. The <span class="caps">PDO</span> cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling, perhaps much deeper than the global cooling from about 1945 to 1977.”<br /><a href="http://deltafarmpress.com/news/robinson-column-0825/ " target="_blank"><br />Delta Farm Press | August 25, 2008</a><br />Title: “Global cooling gains momentum among scientists”<br /><br /><a href="http://acuf.org/issues/issue62/060624cul.asp " target="_blank">American Conservative Union Foundation | 2006</a><br />Title: “Global Cooling?” by Dennis Avery<br />“The official thermometers at the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> National Climate Data Center show a slight global cooling trend over the last seven years, from 1998 to 2005. … Fred Singer, a well-known skeptic on man-made warming, points out that the latest cooling trend is dictated primarily by a very warm El Nino year in 1998. “When you start your graph with 1998,” he says, “you will necessarily get a cooling trend.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/global-cooling-wanna-bet/ " target="_blank">RealClimate.org | May 2008</a><br />Title: “Global Cooling-Wanna Bet?” <br />“Global cooling appears to be the “flavour of the month”. First, a rather misguided media discussion erupted on whether global warming had stopped, based on the observed temperatures of the past 8 years or so…” <br />[This one is from RealClimate, a site featuring actual scientists who know that global cooling is a farce, and decided to place a significant wager on the matter with some global cooling proponents. It is unclear whether the challenge was accepted.]</p>
<p><a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15784">Canada Free Press | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Global Warming? The ‘Deniers’ are my Heroes”<br /><br />“The most amazing aspect of the [global warming] hoax is that, despite a decade of global cooling, the mainstream media, print and electronic, relentlessly continue to write about ‘greenhouse gases’ as if they have anything to do with the Earth’s climate.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=114261">WorldNetDaily | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Science bulletin: ‘Sun heats Earth!’ - Russian research forecasts global cooling”<br /><br />“Observations of the sun show that as for the increase in temperature, carbon dioxide is ‘not guilty,’ and as for what lies ahead in the coming decades, it is not catastrophic warming, but a global, and very prolonged temperature drop.”<br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/6300329/Sceptics-welcome-BBC-report-on-global-cooling.html"><br />The Telegraph | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Sceptics welcome <span class="caps">BBC</span> report on ‘global cooling’<br /><br />“The pacific decadal oscillation (<span class="caps">PDO</span>) cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling.”<br /><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_big_chill_afdBzlFVJvYU66sff5tP2M"><br />New York Post | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “The big chill”<br /><br />“In 1998 the world reached its peak temperatures, according to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and ever since its been downhill. The world is going through a Global Cooling period. There doesn’t appear to be any provable link between carbon emissions and global temperatures.”<br /><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/michael-ignatieff-should-think-outside-the-green-box/article1327161/"><br />The Globe and Mail | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Michael Ignatieff should think outside the green box”<br /><br />Carbon dioxide has increased, temperatures have not: The models did not predict that incongruity. We may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/keremeosreview/opinion/64177017.html">Keremeos Review | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Forecast: A cooling tend on climate change”<br /><br />“Average global temperature is rising at 1.40C per century, not the 3.90C indicated by the <span class="caps">IPPC</span> models. We are in the seventh year of global cooling. Sea levels, despite messages to the contrary, are rising at normal rates – eight inches per century – much less than the <span class="caps">IPPC</span> models suggested. There has been no significant rise in sea levels over the last four years.”<br /><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/2155-more-americans-skeptical-of-global-warming"><br />The New American | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “More Americans Skeptical of Global Warming”<br /><br />“The Earth has not warmed over the past 10 years, and some have reported slight global cooling over the same period.”<br /><br /><a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/27/cluck-its-cold-outside-by-pete">The American Spectator | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Cluck, It’s Cold Outside”<br /><br />“That part [western Antarctica] has been warming for quite some time, but comprises barely 2 percent of the continent. The other 98 percent is cooling. Prof. Don Easterbrook of Western Washington University has done research showing that the most important ocean cycle, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (<span class="caps">PDO</span>), was in a warming cycle in the 1980s and ’90s, but that is now in a cool mode. He says this virtually assures us of three decades of global cooling.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2009/10/19/theres-global-cooling-trend">StandardNET | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “There’s a global cooling trend”<br /><br />“Satellite data from <span class="caps">NASA</span> shows no increase in global temperature since 1998. Mother Nature has provided two consecutive severe winters, and some scientists predict global cooling instead. Over 31,000 have signed a petition denying claims of global-warming alarmists.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/2098-is-the-global-warming-debate-over">The New American | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Is the Golbal Warming Debate Over?”<br /><br />“Global temperatures have steadily decreased over the past decade, despite rising levels of man-made carbon dioxide and climate models that predict the Earth will soon reach its boiling point.”<br /><a href="http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/cooling-53720-trend-global.html"><br />Yuma Sun | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Global warming refuted by facts”<br /><br />“Climatologists have reported carbon dioxide has increased in the atmosphere, yet there has been a cooling trend over the past decade. They are now forecasting a continued cooling trend for at least the next two decades. There is scientific data that correlates with our current global cooling trend.”<br /><a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/10/18/have-you-stopped-beating-your-climate-science-yet/"><br />Hot Air Network | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Have You Stopped Beating Your Climate Science Yet?”<br /><br />“[Certain] science suggests the real danger is not global warming but global cooling, even a new ice age? That would be far more catastrophic than warming… and if we really can affect the temperature, and we try to lower it when it’s already poised to plummet, we would be slitting our own throats out of sheer ignorance and hubris.”<br /><a href="http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&amp;country=0&amp;special=&amp;monthyear=&amp;day=&amp;id=34308&amp;ndb=1&amp;df=0"><br /><span class="caps">FIS</span> | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Climate change views increasingly divided”<br /><br />“Recent studies have shown that the hottest year on record in recent history was in fact 1998 and that no increase in global temperature has been observed for the last 11 years, adding further scepticism to the climate debate.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailyinterlake.com/opinion/columns/frank/article_810ece16-bb9a-11de-8289-001cc4c002e0.html">Daily Inter Lake | October 2009</a><br /><br />Title: “Pulling back the curtain on global warming”<br /><br />”<span class="caps">OK</span>, here’s what we know. The warmest year recorded by our modern-day Noahs was in 1998, just about the time the global-warming fever was starting to peak. Since then, there has never been a year with global temperatures even close to reaching that level. So in practical terms, there has been a temperature decline since 1998, not an increase. Moreover, some scientists predict that global cooling could continue for at least the next 20 years.”</p>
<p><a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/farm-bureau-denier/">The Wonk Room | July 14, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “Farm Bureau Chief Bob Stallman Believes In Global Cooling”</p>
<p>“The head of the largest farming lobbyist group believes that the earth is cooling. Bob Stallman, American Farm Bureau Federation, <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/stallman-climate-epw-testimony09-0709.pdf">testified today</a> before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that the science of man-made climate change isn’t ‘the whole story,’ citing several canards promoted by extremist global warming deniers. Stallman even claimed that climate models that have gotten so much attention <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/stallman-climate-epw-testimony09-0709.pdf">did not predict the cooling</a> that has occurred over the last decade.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/30/AR2009093003569.html">Washington Post | October 1, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “Cooling Down the Cassandras”</p>
<p>“By asserting that the absence of significant warming since 1998 is a mere “plateau,” not warming’s apogee, the [New York] Times assures readers who are alarmed about climate change that the paper knows the future and that warming will continue: Do not despair, bad news will resume.”</p>
<p><a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/09/14/oreillys-right-wing-weatherman-the-globe-is-actually-cooling/">Wonk Room | September 14, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “<span class="caps">O’R</span>eilly’s Weatherman Joe Bastardi: ‘The Globe Is Actually Cooling’ ”</p>
<p>“I’m gonna show you the facts over the last two years. California has been very, very dry. Why is that the case? Well, whenever the Pacific Ocean starts cooling, and the global temperatures start to cool, California gets dry. You see this ocean temperature presentation, all this cold water off California means the air sinks over top of California. When it sinks, it dries out, so <strong>global cooling is actually a cause of drought in California</strong>, which by the way is a dry climate naturally.”</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125686509223717691-lMyQjAxMDI5NTM2MDgzNjA1Wj.html">Wall Street Journal | October 30, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up”</p>
<p>“Two years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is “unequivocal” and is “very likely” caused by man. Then came a development unforeseen by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or <span class="caps">IPCC</span>: Data suggested that Earth’s temperature was beginning to drop.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=112104">WorldNetDaily | October 7, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “Climate czar has it down cold”</p>
<p>“Global temperatures in 2009 are continuing a decade-long decline, with June temperatures reaching levels not seen since the 1980s. The evidence of a significant cooling at least since 2001 is so compelling, you no longer hear much about global warming.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-11224-Baltimore-Weather-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Climate-Change-Debate-Video-CO2-not-to-blame-but-sun-may-cause-cooling">Baltimore Weather Examiner | October 27, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “Climate Change Debate Video: <span class="caps">CO</span>2 not to blame but sun may cause cooling”</p>
<p>“While <span class="caps">CO</span>2 may not have caused the warming of the last century, other forces like the sun might very well result in a dramatic cooling. This could mimic the mini ice age from the 1600s and 1700s.”</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2009/10/excellent_critique_of_the_repo.html">The Star Ledger | October 7, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “Excellent critique of the report that began global-warming hysteria”</p>
<p>“We may be entering a period of global cooling no matter how much <span class="caps">CO</span>-2 we emit.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-11224-Baltimore-Weather-Examiner~y2009m10d23-Arctic-Sea-Ice-shows-a-recovery-but-NASA-is-not-telling-you">Baltimore Weather Examiner | October 23, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “Arctic Sea Ice shows a recovery but <span class="caps">NASA</span> is not telling you”</p>
<p>” In this era of dire claims of climate marred by the controversy of global cooling, public dissent, and early season snow, a <span class="caps">NASA</span> follow up report appears to ignore the good news: The arctic sea ice is actually expanding!”</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2009/06/why_the_globalwarming_movement.html">nj.com | June 28, 2009</a></p>
<p>Title: “Why the global-warming movement may cool off”</p>
<p>“The problem for the global-warming crowd is simple: What if the planet begins to cool? This is a distinct possibility due to the lack of sunspot activity at the moment. A lack of sunspots has historically been accompanied by global cooling rather than warming. Ergo, we may face the threat of another ice age.”</p>
<p><br /><br />There are also several websites dedicated specifically to promoting the global cooling theory. <br /><br /><a href="http://isthereglobalcooling.com/ " target="_blank">IsThereGlobalCooling.com</a><br />“what if global warming is not what they say it is? What if the world’s temperature is headed in the opposite direction? Global temperatures increased for twenty years from the late 1970s to the late 1990s but have actually been cooling the last eleven years.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.climatecooling.org/" target="_blank">ClimateCooling.org</a><br />“An alternative view, is that the Earth has been cooling since the 1930s when we had 3 of the 5 warmest years since 1860 in the <span class="caps">US</span>, and probably globally if the world environmental data base were cleaned up as is happening in the <span class="caps">US</span>. This site will be developed to show the science and the impacts related to global cooling, a very scary event compared to warming. It corresponds in the opposite way to the thousands of global warming sites. An unbiased view is at our sister-site: Climate Change Facts. The Editor started his interest in climate change in the 1970s, charged with helping industry adapt to the certainty of global cooling. Tim Ball has documented the cooling trend and its implications.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.stopglobalcooling.com/ " target="_blank">StopGlobalCooling.com</a><br />This site isn’t very interesting, although they got the money <span class="caps">URL</span>. It just aggregates all the skeptic articles on the subject. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.stopglobalcoolingnow.com/ " target="_blank">StopGlobalCoolingNow.com</a><br />“Have you noticed how cold the Winters have been getting? Yeah, so have we. If this keeps up we will all be froze!”<br /><br />This is just a sampling, and since the <span class="caps">AP</span> story broke, the Google results increasingly return various links to the <span class="caps">AP</span> story or other coverage of the blind test. It would have been interesting to see the Google results a day before the story broke. But the examples above provide a snapshot of how widely this myth traveled before the <span class="caps">AP</span> popped the balloon. And sooner or later, no doubt, somebody will dust off this myth again. <br /><br />Have you seen any other examples of skeptics promoting the global cooling theory? Let us know in the comments.</p></div></div></div><!-- iCopyright Horizontal Tag -->
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<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/913">global warming</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1278">Associated Press</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1885">temperature records</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1916">global cooling</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2235">climate skeptics</a></div></div></div>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:20:39 +0000Brendan DeMelle4148 at http://www.desmogblog.comStatisticians Confirm: No Global Cooling Despite Skeptic Spinhttp://www.desmogblog.com/statisticians-confirm-no-global-cooling-despite-skeptic-spin
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>In a massive blow to the climate skeptic movement, the Associated Press has conducted a blind test of statisticians that <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-impact-statisticians-reject-174088.html" target="_blank">unequivocally confirms that no global cooling trend exists</a>. </h3>
<p>Despite the best efforts of a small handful of climate skeptics, who argue that the globe has cooled rather than warmed since the record hot year of 1998, no such cooling trend has taken place.<br /><br />The Associated Press conducted the <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-impact-statisticians-reject-174088.html" target="_blank">blind test</a> by sending global temperature data from <span class="caps">NOAA</span> and <span class="caps">NASA</span> to four independent statisticians who were not told what the data represented, but simply asked to perform a common statistical analysis to look for trends in the data.<br /><br />The statisticians “found no true temperature declines over time,” and in fact identified “a distinct decades-long upward trend in the numbers,” the <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ap-impact-statisticians-reject-174088.html" target="_blank"><span class="caps">AP</span> reports</a>. <br /><br />Several statisticians quoted in the <span class="caps">AP</span> piece slam the climate skeptics who “cherry-pick” data in a “particularly suspect” attempt to denounce global warming. Efforts to portray a global cooling trend since the record hot year of 1998 are “not scientifically legitimate,” and are the result of “people coming at the data with preconceived notions,” according to David Peterson, a retired Duke University statistics professor who analyzed the data for <span class="caps">AP</span>.<br /><br />“To talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous,” said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford.<br /><br />“Ridiculous” indeed, but that has not stopped the handful of loud-mouthed climate skeptics from spreading this false claim. Their efforts have proven successful at confusing the public, thanks in large part to the Drudge Report, <span class="caps">FOX</span> News and lazy journalists who fail to fact-check the skeptic arguments, providing oxygen to their baseless claims.<br /><br />The Associated Press conducted a simple exercise that any self-respecting news outlet concerned with the facts rather than the confusionist spin could duplicate easily. Don’t expect this news to silence the skeptics, but if you are a journalist, please let the skeptics talk amongst themselves, rather than polluting the public discourse any further. And if you are a concerned news consumer, please do hold accountable any news outlet that continues to ignore this starkly obvious fact: there is no global cooling. There definitely is global warming. <br /><br />It really is that simple. Now can we talk about the critically important matter of how to address climate change with just a few weeks left until the Copenhagen Climate Summit?</p>
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<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/627">Fox News</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/913">global warming</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1278">Associated Press</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1885">temperature records</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1916">global cooling</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2235">climate skeptics</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/2873">drudge report</a></div></div></div>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:41:26 +0000Brendan DeMelle4143 at http://www.desmogblog.comFarm Bureau President Bob Stallman Believes in Global Cooling http://www.desmogblog.com/farm-bureau-president-bob-stallman-believes-global-cooling
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Bob Stallman, head of the American Farm Bureau Federation, has declared that <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/farm-bureau-denier/" target="_blank">the earth is cooling</a> in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. So it must be true.<br /><br />Using the Frank Luntz approved language of “sound science,” Stallman argues against any Congressional efforts to fight global warming. <br /><br />He has a good name for the cause, eh? Stallman? It’s par for the course for the Farm Bureau to deny, delay and attempt to kill any action on climate change, despite the risk to farmers of ignoring the issue.</p>
<p>Despite pointing out himself that climate data “clearly indicate an identifiable warming trend” and that “carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing and that man-made emissions have increased for a number of decades,” the stall man argues that “those aren’t the only facts, and they don’t tell the whole story.”<br /><!--break-->True. Missing entirely from Stallman’s testimony was any mention of the many significant challenges farmers will face if we <span class="caps">FAIL</span> to address climate change. Droughts, torrential rains and storms are just a few examples of global warming consequences that will negatively affect agriculture. Farmers could pay a steep price for the stall-and-kill lobbying efforts of the Farm Bureau if Congress fails to pass strong, science-based legislation to combat climate change. <br /><br />Brad Johnson over at <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/farm-bureau-denier/" target="_blank">The Wonk Room takes Stallman to task over his denial</a> of the fact that “the last ten years have been the warmest decade by far — significantly warmer than the previous decade of 1989-1998, which had been the warmest, itself significantly warmer than 1979-1988, then the warmest decade in the last 150 years.” <br /><br />Johnson even includes a <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/farm-bureau-denier/" target="_blank">nice, pretty graph</a> for Stallman to review and hopefully come to the conclusion that he’s wrong.<br /><br />But, as Stallman himself says, “facts are stubborn things.”<br /><br />Stallman also testified that “leadership only occurs when people are following you.” <br /><br />Dues-paying members of the Farm Bureau who disagree with Stallman’s stance on this issue should voice their disapproval of their main lobbying group’s efforts against climate action, and stop following him.</p></div></div></div><!-- iCopyright Horizontal Tag -->
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<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1916">global cooling</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/4308">climate legislation</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/4373">Farm Bureau</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/4374">Bob Stallman</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/4375">global warming effects on agriculture</a></div></div></div>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:09:30 +0000Kevin Grandia3968 at http://www.desmogblog.comWhat Scientists Have to Say About Global Coolinghttp://www.desmogblog.com/what-science-has-say-about-global-cooling
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/global%20temperatures_1.jpg?itok=lGRKGvl2" width="200" height="193" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Scientists have been quietly gnashing their teeth in frustration over deniers’ latest attempts to pervert their research on global warming. Until now.</p>
<p>In an article published in the latest issue of the journal <a href="http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009GL037810.shtml"><em>Geophysical Research Letters</em></a> (sub. required), David R. Easterling of <span class="caps">NOAA</span>’s National Climatic Data Center and Michael F. Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory set out to refute the “global cooling” lies peddled by <em>Fox News</em>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/washington-post-blogger-will-misleads-readers-climate-science-again"><em>The Washington Post</em></a>, and the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/michael-steele-helps-make-sense-global-warming">Republican Party</a> once and for all.<!--break--></p>
<p>They start off by pointing out that periods of no trend or even slight cooling in the globally averaged surface air temperature record have been quite common in the last 34 years and in climate model simulations of the 20th and 21st centuries so the most recent trend is nothing new. In fact, given the natural variability inherent in the climate, they say that it is highly likely that we will experience several more periods of a decade or two where there is no trend, or slight cooling, “in the presence of <em>longer-term warming</em>.”</p>
<p>The myth of “global cooling” has largely been perpetuated by deniers who zealously cherry pick the data, fitting linear trend lines to particular decadal temperature records, to “reinforce their point of view,” the authors say. Indeed, deniers often single out the 1998 – 2008 period, during which there was no significant trend, to argue that global warming has stopped, for instance.</p>
<p>That’s a red herring because one could just as easily fit the trend to the 1999 – 2008 period and obtain a statistically significant positive trend (1998 having been an <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=10&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metoffice.gov.uk%2Fcorporate%2Fpressoffice%2Fmyths%2F2.html&amp;ei=zG_3SbK4EqLmtgOZoNXiDg&amp;usg=AFQjCNGUBGC44sXYmcC9OpNb7Q_9NVVsoQ">unusually warm year</a> because of the strong El Niño).</p>
<p>Or take the 1977 – 1985 and 1981 – 1989 periods: Looked at individually, they both show no trend but, when embedded in the 1975 – 2008 period, they become part of a larger, substantial warming trend (the top left graph in the image is a close-up of the 1977 – 1985 period and the top right one is a close-up of the 1981 – 1989 period).</p>
<p>While it may seem easy to fixate on these short-term trends, there’s a very simple reason for why scientists do not do so: they don’t matter. Easterling and Wehner:</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Climate scientists pay little attention to these short-term fluctuations as the short term “cooling trends” mentioned above are statistically insignificant and fitting trends to such short periods is not very meaningful in the context of long-term climate change.”</p>
<p>To further disprove the deniers’ claims, the authors ran a series of climate model simulations to look for both positive and negative decadal trends in the projected temperature record for the 21st century. One of their simulations, while predicting an overall warming trend of about 4°C by the end of the century (in line with most <span class="caps">IPCC</span> models), showed that the 2001 – 2010 and 2016 – 2031 periods would not see a clear trend, or, at most, see a small, statistically insignificant cooling trend.</p>
<p>Because the model was run without any simulated volcanic eruptions or solar variability (which could result in prolonged periods of cooling), Easterling and Wehner attributed the observed trends entirely to natural internal variability.</p>
<p>Overall, they found that there was about a 5% chance of a negative decadal trend occurring during the 21st century; if they restricted their timeline to only the first half of the 21st century, the probability of a negative decadal trend rose to 10%.</p>
<p>Their simulations also demonstrated that, as greenhouse gas forcing increases, the percentage of statistically significant positive trends increases – from 26% for the first half of the century to 47% for the entire century – while that of statistically significant negative trends decreases.</p>
<p>They conclude by stating the obvious: though the natural variability of the climate will likely produce several more periods of slight cooling or no change, the overall trend is one of significant, and sustained, warming.</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>Claims that a global warming is not occurring that are derived from a cooling observed over such short time periods ignore this natural variability and are misleading.”</p> </div></div></div><!-- iCopyright Horizontal Tag -->
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<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/science">Science</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/913">global warming</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/939">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1908">carbon dioxide</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1916">global cooling</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/4301">climate model</a></div></div></div>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:04:05 +0000Jeremy Jacquot3885 at http://www.desmogblog.comParsing Dennis Avery's Other Dubious Claimshttp://www.desmogblog.com/parsin-dennis-averys-other-dubious-claims
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/CO2%20variations.jpg?itok=D2qf9A3V" width="200" height="143" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Dennis Avery may have done the fact-challenged (yes, <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/04/04/will-global-boiling/">again</a>) <em>WaPo</em> columnist <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/01/AR2009040103042.html">George Will</a> one better by actually admitting he’d “<a href="http://americandaily.com/index.php/article/1037">misstated</a>” that <span class="caps">CO</span>2 levels at Mauna Loa were declining (when they were, in fact, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/dennis-avery-fails-correct-right-wing-echo-machine">quite clearly rising</a>), but the remainder of his column was so error-filled that I thought it deserved another look.</p>
<p>Take the first half of the piece, in which he approvingly cites Australian – and Oxford-trained – research physicist Tom Quirk to make the jaw-dropping argument that natural climate variability, and not anthropogenic activity, is to blame for elevated atmosphere <span class="caps">CO</span>2 levels. A quick look at Avery’s list of citations informs us that Quirk’s article appeared in a recent issue of <em>Energy and Environment</em>, a “peer-reviewed” journal curated by <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sonja-boehmer-christiansen">Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen</a>, which does not inspire great confidence in its scientific rigor.<!--break--></p>
<p>Starting from the premise that radiocarbon-labeled <span class="caps">CO</span>2 takes several years to migrate from one hemisphere to the next, Quirk argues that the absence of a lag between the observed variations in <span class="caps">CO</span>2 levels in the two hemispheres implies that fossil-fuel emissions are absorbed locally.</p>
<p>Since roughly 95 percent of all anthropogenic <span class="caps">CO</span>2 is emitted in the Northern Hemisphere, there should be a time difference between the variations observed at the Mauna Loa station, in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Antarctica station, in the Southern Hemisphere.</p>
<p>Not being a climate expert but sensing that this reasoning was deeply flawed, I contacted an actual scientist, <a href="http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/">David Archer</a> from the University of Chicago (and a contributor to <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/"><em>RealClimate</em></a>), to get his input. He was kind enough to furnish me with the following explanation:</p>
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<p><span class="dquo">“</span>The 14-C, and other tracers such as radioactive krypton from nuclear fuel reprocessing, show that there is a time constant of about a year for mixing between the hemispheres, not several years. I’m attaching an animated plot of the atmospheric <span class="caps">CO</span>2 concentration as a function of latitude [see the video below]. There’s a huge seasonal cycle, particularly in the northern hemisphere where most of the land is. Just eyeballing the plot, it looks to me like there is a higher average concentration in the north than in the south. What we’re looking for is on the order of 1 or 2 ppm higher in the north, if it’s going up by about that much per year and the southern hemisphere is one year behind. The data have been analyzed in greater depth to try to figure out where the “missing sink” carbon is going, and the canonical conclusion is that there is a sink in the northern high latitudes of about 2 gigaton C per year, but it could be in the tropics. <strong>I don’t think there is any room in the data to say that there is no northern hemisphere fossil fuel source at all</strong>.”</p>
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<p>(For a more current version of the data Archer cites, check out <a href="http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/globalview/co2/co2_intro.html">this <span class="caps">NOAA</span> website about <span class="caps">GLOBALVIEW</span></a>.)</p>
<p>I decided to look into a few of his other citations, seeing as they were pulled from <em>Science</em>, to evaluate the basis for his claim that <span class="caps">CO</span>2 lags temperature. (You’ll forgive me for omitting the third listed citation, another article taken from <em>Energy and Environment</em>.)</p>
<p>To be clear, the data from the Vostok ice core in Antarctica does show that ice ages are initiated by small variations in the planet’s orbit – these can include changes in its eccentricity, tilt, or precession (for more, see this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycle">Wikipedia article about Milankovitch cycles</a>). The variations prompt an initial warming, causing <span class="caps">CO</span>2 to be released, which, in turn, leads to more warming – an effect known as forcing.</p>
<p>Yet scientists also know that these changes are insufficient to account for the wide temperature fluctuations we’ve seen in the historical record. That means something else – let’s say anthropogenic emissions – must be helping to push the process along. Which is exactly the point Hubertus Fischer and his colleagues make in the <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/283/5408/1712">1999 <em>Science</em> article</a> Avery cites (sub. required):</p>
<div style="border: 1px solid LightGrey; margin: 10px; padding: 10px; width: 87%;">“The good agreement of the Delta age model with the measured value for the present supports the idea that at least the lag at the beginning of the warm periods is real. The size of this lag is on the order of the ocean mixing time (for a well-ventilated ocean like today), which is the major control for the time constant of equilibration within the deep ocean-atmosphere carbon system after climate-induced changes. <strong>In the case of a recent anthropogenic warming, the external climate forcing by <span class="caps">CO</span>2 emissions due to combustion of fossil fuel leads climate variations, so the application of the <span class="caps">CO</span>2-climate relation deduced from the past on a recent global warming seems not to be straightforward</strong>.”</div>
<p>In what surely must be a freak coincidence, Nicolas Caillon and his colleagues, writing in a <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5613/1728">2003 issue of <em>Science</em></a>, reiterate the same point:</p>
<div style="border: 1px solid LightGrey; margin: 10px; padding: 10px; width: 87%;">“This confirms that <span class="caps">CO</span>2 is not the forcing that initially drives the climatic system during a deglaciation. Rather, deglaciation is probably initiated by some insolation forcing, which influences first the temperature change in Antarctica (and possibly in part of the Southern Hemisphere) and then the <span class="caps">CO</span>2. <strong>This sequence of events is still in full agreement with the idea that <span class="caps">CO</span>2 plays, through its greenhouse effect, a key role in amplifying the initial orbital forcing. First, the 800-year time lag is short in comparison with the total duration of the temperature and <span class="caps">CO</span>2 increases (~5000 years). Second, the <span class="caps">CO</span>2 increase clearly precedes the Northern Hemisphere deglaciation (…)</strong>.</div>
<p>Finally, the situation at Termination <span class="caps">III</span> differs from the recent anthropogenic <span class="caps">CO</span>2 increase. As recently noted by Kump (38), we should distinguish between internal influences (such as the deglacial <span class="caps">CO</span>2 increase) and external influences (such as the anthropogenic <span class="caps">CO</span>2 increase) on the climate system. Although the recent <span class="caps">CO</span>2 increase has clearly been imposed first, as a result of anthropogenic activities, it naturally takes, at Termination <span class="caps">III</span>, some time for <span class="caps">CO</span>2 to outgas from the ocean once it starts to react to a climate change that is first felt in the atmosphere. The sequence of events during this Termination is fully consistent with <span class="caps">CO</span>2 participating in the latter ~4200 years of the warming. The radiative forcing due to <span class="caps">CO</span>2 may serve as an amplifier of initial orbital forcing, which is then further amplified by fast atmospheric feedbacks (39) that are also at work for the present-day and future climate.”</p>
<p>Avery concludes by citing data that indicate that ocean surface temperatures have stopped increasing since 2003. Like most skeptics, he seems unwilling to accept the fact that climate science is not always a black and white affair – in other words, that it is absolutely normal to see slight variations in the year-to-year record. As an environmental economist, you would think he’d be used to seeing noise in the data. (Looked at in the aggregate, of course, the trends are clear, but skeptics conveniently choose to ignore this.)</p>
<p>He attacks <a href="http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Willis/">Josh Willis</a>, an oceanographer with <span class="caps">NASA</span>’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for being a “loyal bureaucrat” that refuses to accept the cold, hard truth. Not that he needs any defending from me: You can read his own take on the supposed controversy in an article he titled “<a href="http://www.usclivar.org/Newsletter/V6N2.pdf">Is It Me, or Did the Oceans Cool? A Lesson on Global Warming from my Favorite Denier</a>.”</p>
<p>Needless to say, the other experts Avery approvingly quotes in the article – <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roger-pielke-sr-attacks-messenger-injures-self">Roger Pielke, Sr.</a>, and <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/jstor_climate_report_translation/">Kanya Kusano</a> – are both ardent skeptics. I guess it’s time for Dennis to change his theory.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/446px-Michael_Steele_1.jpg?itok=ghfPOKOr" width="200" height="200" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Ever since ascending to the top of the party leadership, it’s been one humiliating misstep after another for beleaguered Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.</p>
<p>What started out as a relatively benign, though admittedly idiotic sounding, attempt to remake the party’s image and grow its ranks by “planning an ‘off the hook’ public-relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by applying the party’s principles to urban-suburban hip-hop settings” (no, really, he said that) quickly became a very public train wreck following a series of stumbles and misstatements.</p>
<p>His stances on abortion rights and homosexuality have earned him the enmity of the religious, conservative wing of the party while his threats of deploying primary challengers against three popular <span class="caps">GOP</span> senators who supported President Obama’s stimulus package have angered the moderates. On one issue, though, Steele stands firmly with the wingnut crowd of his party: global warming.<!--break--></p>
<p>In a little noticed radio broadcast picked up by <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/16/steeles-tour-de-force-com_n_175317.html"><em>The Huffington Post</em>’s Sam Stein</a>, Steele, sitting in for talk radio host Bill Bennett, answered a listener’s complaint about global warming alarmism by positing the following:<br /><br />“We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long.”<br /><br />Ladies and Gentlemen: I give you the putative leader of the Republican Party. <br /><br />Now, given that this is the same party that has brought us such climate “luminaries” as Sen. James Inhofe, this latest outburst, though stunningly misinformed on first (and second, third, fourth, etc.) glance, fits well within <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/skeptics-need-chill-about-global-cooling">the established meme</a>. <br /><br />His argument, as far as I can discern it, is that the current warming trend is part of a broader cooling process – one that apparently turned a once lush, warmer Greenland into a mostly frozen and uninhabitable island. (To say that Iceland is “green” is somewhat of an exaggeration – as <a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/03/michael_steele_warming_is_really_cooling.php">Matthew Yglesias pointed out</a>, most of its landscape is now desolate wasteland because of intense deforestation and topsoil erosion.)</p>
<p>While Steele is correct in implying that a cooling period helped make Greenland what it is today, he doesn’t seem to realize that that period, dubbed “The Little Ice Age” by historians and climate scientists, ended a long time ago – over 150 years ago, to be exact. During this era, which lasted several centuries, Norse settlements on the island were wiped out due to a combination of malnourishment, armed conflict and declining temperatures. <br /><br />Similar century to millennia-long periods of intense cooling and warming, triggered by <a href="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&amp;tid=282&amp;cid=9986">abrupt climate shifts</a>, have occurred throughout history. Therefore, while it is certainly not implausible that the planet may eventually lapse into another mini ice age, most projected trends point to <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/02/23/mit-doubles-global-warming-projections/">several decades of warming</a>, made worse by anthropogenic influences. Of course, if Steele understood this, then he’d already know why scientists are so concerned about the <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216131158.htm">dramatic rate of melting of Greenland’s ice sheet</a> – melting prompted by higher air and water temperatures, I might add. <br /><br />So take heart, conservative loyalists: While you may not see eye-to-eye with Michael Steele on most issues, you can at least take comfort in knowing that he shares your disdain for climate science. George Will, the Washington Post columnist who <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/george-will-and-jouralistic-malpractice">wrote two of the most blatantly mendacious stories about global warming</a> (and who apparently is <a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090317/OPINION/903170304/1049">still at it</a>), would certainly approve.</p></div></div></div><!-- iCopyright Horizontal Tag -->
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<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/Jeff-Jacoby-color_3.jpg?itok=1t_gk6bU" width="200" height="258" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Not to let himself be outdone by his skeptic colleague in good standing, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/george-will-and-jouralistic-malpractice">George Will</a>, <em>The Boston Globe</em>’s Jeff Jacoby has penned an <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/08/wheres_global_warming/">equally vacuous and misinformed column</a> posing the thought-provoking question: “Where’s global warming?”</p>
<p>It’s hard to know where to start. From the outset, I was tempted to just rehash <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/george-wills-big-climate-change-adventure">my previous post about “global cooling” and climate variability</a> or to mine Mitchell’s George Will debunking posts for some good material. (This line, in particular, answers his question rather well: “In other words: if you want to see climate change, look out the window.”) In light of some of his other claims about global temperatures and Arctic sea ice, however, I thought I’d do some of my own snooping.<!--break--></p>
<p>First, to give Jacoby his due, he is correct in stating that 2008 was the coolest year of the past decade and that the National Snow and Ice Data Center (<span class="caps">NSIDC</span>) <a href="http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2009/021809.html">acknowledged a few weeks ago that an error in one of its satellite sensors</a> had caused it to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles (500,000 square kilometers) by mid-February. And, yes, Kyle Swanson and Anastasios Tsonis did note in their study that the recent cooling period appeared “unprecedented over the instrumental period.”</p>
<p>Jacoby’s problem, and that of his fellow know-nothings, is that he never elaborates on these points. Take the <span class="caps">NSIDC</span> data. While he doesn’t state it explicitly, Jacoby’s intent in citing the error is to generally cast doubt on the reliability of satellites and other climate monitoring technologies.</p>
<p>It’s certainly true that these advanced devices occasionally malfunction, which is why scientists regularly verify their progress, but, on the whole, they are very good at what they do. And though 500,000 square kilometers is not an insignificant figure, it bears repeating that <a href="http://desmogblog.com/arctic-sea-ice-melting-no-matter-how-bad-george-will-doesnt-want-it">the total Arctic sea ice extent for the month of February was 14.8 million square kilometers</a>.</p>
<p>Nor did the error significantly affect the accuracy of <span class="caps">NSIDC</span>’s time series numbers, as Bill Chapman, a University of Illinois climate scientist <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/02/22/a-wrinkle-in-ice-or-not/">explained to <em>The Loom</em>’s Carl Zimmer</a>:</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>As one check, we have been comparing our time series with those from the independent data source <span class="caps">AMSR</span>-E. They are just about identical so we are comfortable that our time series remain solid. Our time series and therefore the statement are unaffected by the recent satellite problems. If the sensor degrades a lot more, our numbers will be affected, but to date, they are not.”</p>
<p>More important, unlike its critics, the <span class="caps">NSDIC</span> quickly recognized its error and released a detailed analysis explaining how the satellite sensor had erred and what its impact on the data was. Another critical point that the deniers ignore: This type of near-real-time data never makes its way into the peer-reviewed literature and therefore has no bearing on the validity of past and current studies. As the analysis notes:</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>As discussed above, near-real-time products do not undergo the same level of quality control as the final archived products, which are used in scientific research published in peer-reviewed journals.”</p>
<p>Jacoby’s claim that 2008 was the coolest year of the past decade also misses the point and perfectly illustrates deniers’ tendency to cherry pick the data. As both <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/07/very-warm-2008-makes-this-hottest-decade-in-recorded-history-by-far/">Joe Romm</a> and <a href="http://greenfyre.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/2008-will-probably-be-10th-hottest-year-on-record/"><em>Greenfyre</em>’s Mike Kaulbars</a> have pointed out, 2008 also happened to be the tenth hottest year on record.</p>
<p>Indeed, Jacoby’s point seems even more irrelevant when you consider that this has been the hottest decade to date so far according to <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/07/no-warming-since-1998-get-real-deniers/"><span class="caps">NASA</span></a>, <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/16/sorry-deniers-hadley-center-and-wmo-say-2000s-are-easily-the-hottest-decade-in-recorded-history/">the World Meteorological Organization (<span class="caps">WMO</span>) and the Hadley Center</a>. Moreover, the six warmest years in <span class="caps">NASA</span>’s record have all fallen within the last decade, and, as all scientists agree, global mean temperatures have been steadily increasing over the last 150 years. </p>
<p>The warmest year to date did occur in 1998, but that was largely due to the disproportionate influence of the El Niño – Southern Oscillation (<span class="caps">ENSO</span>) signal, as <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/07/global-trends-and-enso/"><em>RealClimate</em>’s Gavin Schmidt noted last year</a>.</p>
<p>Removing the signal, as Gavin did, tells a slightly different story:</p>
<p><span class="dquo">“</span>The basic picture over the long term doesn’t change. The trends over the last 30 years remain though the interannual variability is slightly reduced (as you’d expect). The magnitude of the adjustment varies between +/-0.25ºC. You can more clearly see the impacts of the volcanoes (Agung: 1963, El Chichon: 1982, Pinatubo: 1991). <strong>Over the short term though, it does make a difference. Notably, the extreme warmth in 1998 is somewhat subdued, as is last winter’s coolness. The warmest year designation (now in the absence of a strong El Niño) is more clearly seen to be 2005 (in <span class="caps">GISTEMP</span>) or either 2005 or 2001 (in HadCRUT3v)</strong>. This last decade is still the warmest decade in the record, and the top 8 or 10 years (depending on the data source) are all in the last 10 years!”</p>
<p>Jacoby’s complaint that the mainstream media has largely ignored the “recent cold phenomena” is hogwash, of course. As Joe and others have noted, it has actually been quite the contrary, with even <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/science/02cold.html?ex=1205038800&amp;en=33ffc45ee4c4a580&amp;ei=5070&amp;emc=eta1"><em>The New York Times</em></a> and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/05/climate-change-weather"><em>The Guardian</em></a> reporting on the “unprecedented” cooling.</p>
<p>He ends the column on this conciliatory note: “Dogma and zealotry have their virtues, no doubt. But if we want to understand where global warming has gone, those aren’t the tools we need.” Good advice, Jeff. Now follow it.</p> </div></div></div><!-- iCopyright Horizontal Tag -->
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<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/images/blog-feature-2059.jpg?itok=5RpWjQXD" width="131" height="86" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=4df175c5-d861-4bb1-8145-4132fcd49870">Here's an opinion piece</a> by Lorne Gunter that ran in yesterday's National Post about “global cooling.” </p><p><a href="/is-fox-news-finally-turing-the-climate-change-corner">Even Fox News</a> doesn't buy into this myth that is propped up as somehow refuting the current science around climate change.</p><p>From the Fox News article:</p><p><span class="blockquote"><span><p>One might say: First the Earth was supposed to be getting colder; now scientists say it's getting hotter — how can we trust scientists if they're predictions are so wishy-washy?</p> <p>Because the first prediction was never actually made. Rather, it's something of an urban climate myth.”</p></span></span> </p></div></div></div><!-- iCopyright Horizontal Tag -->
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